Clair — boys' name

What the Data Says About Clair

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,041 babies named Clair between 1880 and 2020, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Clair currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 356 babies received it in a single year. Clair is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,281 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Clair performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 3,169 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Clair shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 4,451 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Iowa and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Clair in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Clair in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 12,041 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.